[MPlayer-dev-eng] FIX THIS! (Was: Re: [Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS documentation.html,1.62,1.63)

[Jesus Climent]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 08:32:52PM +0200, Gábor Lénárt wrote:
> 
> OK, then let's say:
> 
> License of mplayer is MPlayer-License which is basically the same as GPL
> but forbides distributing binaries.
> 
> BTW ...
> 
> IMHO it would be great if we can say:
> 
> "MPlayer is GNU/GPL except OpenDivX"
> but with the following comment:
> "We do not accept any bug reports, performance questions etc if you run
> mplayer distributed in binary form"

So then modify the License terms in the code and specify exactly the mplayer
license.

It is ok if you do not accept bug reports from a binary (it does not make
any restrictions on the distribution) and you can even add a note in the
Documentation tree specifying that you do NOT want a bug report if you 
didn't compile it yourself (or in the sig9/15 handling code).

One more thing that should be done is checking that every single piece of
code included in the mplayer tree is GPL. No exceptions. Any other borrowed
code should be marked as non-free.

It can be a problem for distros as Debian.

J.

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